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              NICKNAMES »» Val
              AGE »» 12
              BIRTHDAY »» 27 June 2043
              GENDER »» Male
              FACE-CLAIM »» Aiden Gallagher ✖
              BLOOD STATUS »» Pureblood
              WAND »» 10 1/2 inches, Sycamore with raven feather, springy and smooth
              LANGUAGES SPOKEN »» Fluent: English, Italian. Conversational: French, Greek. Academic: Latin.
              ACCENT »» Faintly Italian
              PET »» Owl da Vinci

              LIKES
              xxx»» History
              xxx»» Museums
              xxx»» Food, any kind
              xxx»» Big cities
              xxx»» Muggle technology
              DISLIKES
              xxx»» Large animals
              xxx»» Quiet
              xxx»» Teachers
              xxx»» Expectations
              xxx»» Being cold
              HOBBIES
              xxx»» Reading
              xxx»» Exploring
              xxx»» Cooking


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              SCHOLARLY
              xxx»» Valerius inherited his parent's hoarding habits; however, he doesn't hoard objects. What he hoards is knowledge. It doesn't matter the subject, it doesn't matter how mundane, it doesn't matter how complicated; if you stick a book in his hand, he will devour it in a matter of hours, and then go looking for another one. He isn't much of a do-er. He understands most things in theory, but actually applying the knowledge can be difficult. Still, he reasons that those who can't do, teach, so if nothing else he's got a career as a very excellent teacher ahead of him.

              CURIOUS
              xxx»» The issue, Val thinks, with the whole "satisfaction brought it back" thing, is that he's never satisfied. Rather, he is insatiably curious about the world and everything in it. He's never met a question he didn't want to find the answer to, or, in cases where there is no hard answer, like philosophy or psychology, every single theory and the history behind them. He's not even concerned with forming opinions, though he has them. He just wants to know what all the different schools of thought are. He likens himself to the modern version of a renaissance man, dabbling a bit in everything.

              CONTENT
              xxx»» Val, being the oldest of his siblings, is naturally being raised as the heir. There are expectations on him, to better the family fortune that his parents foolishly squandered, to make a good match with a good girl and generally carry on the family's good name. Val... is not concerned with any of this. He was too young when the money got tight to remember the times of luxury. As long as he can pop down to a library and read a book, or interesting strangers to talk to about their lives and interests, he's got all he really wants out of life. His greedy nature extends only to knowledge; in all other things, all he wants is for himself and his family to be healthy and cared for.

              DOTING
              xxx»» A secondary result of being the oldest sibling is the sense of responsibility Val feels over his two siblings, particularly Aurais, since he blames himself for his brother's accident, having been responsible for watching his siblings when it occurred. His solution? To do absolutely any- and everything for the both of them. Just about the only thing that can distract him from his voracious reading habits is either of his siblings wanting or needing something, and then he will drop everything to achieve it.

              APATHETIC
              xxx»» The thing is, on the rare occasion that Val doesn't care about something, it is impossible to make him pay it any mind. He struggles a lot with things like money and investing and business because to him, those are petty concerns that stand in the way of him and learning all the things. He doesn't want to have to spend his time worrying about finances and helping run whatever his parents most recent business venture is. He wants to explore the world, meet new people, read new books, and by God, he's going to do it. Anything he doesn't care about is at best a nuisance and at worst an obstacle, and all he cares about is avoiding it.

              INTUITIVE
              xxx»» Being so well-read, Val knows a lot of things about a lot of different subjects. As such, he's very good at picking up nuances and understanding how things work. He rarely bothers with things like instructions because most of the time, he can figure it out well enough on his own. He's generally good at reading situations and applying problem solving skills to helping improve them. Occasionally, his 'solution' ends up being a lecture so long that both parties just cave and compromise, but he's going to stick to that being a cunning strategy and not just happenstance.

              STRENGTHS
              xxx»» Well-read
              xxx»» Thoughtful
              WEAKNESSES
              xxx»» Obsessive
              xxx»» Stubborn
              FEARS
              xxx»» Memory loss
              xxx»» Large animals


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              CHILDHOOD
              xxx»» Valerius is the firstborn of Cato Aurelis and his wife Audenzia de Luca, an Italian couple who transplanted to England shortly before their son's birth. The couple each came from old, wealthy magical families, and were, while not quite an arranged match, not quite a love match, either. They were, at least, good friends, and grew to love one another by the time they began having children. The move to England was rather impulsive, and surprised their families; Audenzia's father had died and, as she was his only child, inherited his entire fortune. She wanted to use the money to "strike out" and try her hand at business.

              xxx»» Unfortunately for the family, Cato and Audenzia had expensive taste, and could uncharitably be described as "hoarders." Audenzia also had no real head for business, and Cato, being the lastborn child of five, had never been taught the ins and outs, it having been (quietly) assumed he would simply work for his eldest brother for all his life. As such, it wasn't long before the money began to run low. By the time their third child, a daughter, was born, the de Luca fortune was all but gone.

              xxx»» The family tried to get on with less money, even going so far as to begin pawning off some of the expensive items the couple had bought, though not many, because neither could bear to part with most of it. Things got desperate when their middle child, Aurais, suffered the effects of a curse caused by one of the many antiques they had stashed in the attic. The curse itself caused an illness that left their son's throat badly damaged. They ended up borrowing money from family in order to cover the expenses accrued while he was healing. Unfortunately, they overshot the family's goodwill, and were eventually cut off.

              xxx»» Desperate, Cato and Audenzia returned to attempting to sell and pawn off their antiques and other items, but it was (for them) an extremely difficult process. Valerius and his siblings watched as their parents struggled, not quite understanding but sympathetic and more than a little worried. They were quite surprised when, mere weeks before Val received his Hogwarts letter, the pair suddenly seemed to calm. The shopping trip for his school things was not met with fretful counting of every coin, but with wide smiles and insistence on "only the best." When Val asked, his mother simply replied she'd had some luck on her investments, which he took at face value and was relieved to hear. It was bad enough he was leaving his siblings behind; leaving them behind to suffer increasing poverty seemed like a nightmare. But, he was reassured that things would be just fine from then on out, and was able to leave for school excited to learn.

              SCHOOL YEARS
                  FIRST YEAR »» Val was not surprised to be sorted into Ravenclaw; he was, however, surprised by how difficult he found some of his classes. Specifically, he struggled with wandwork, because he tended to overthink things and get a little too caught up in the details of how a spell functioned and trying to force it to work. He resolved to do better the following year when he found his end of the year exam scores to be less than acceptable by his own (exceptionally high) standards.
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              ATTENDING »» Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
              HOUSE »» Ravenclaw
              YEAR »» Second
              BEST LESSONS
              xxx»» History of Magic
              xxx»» Potions
              xxx»» Astronomy
              WORST LESSONS
              xxx»» Transfiguration
              xxx»» Flying
              xxx»» Charms
              LIFE GOAL »» To discover something or solve an unsolvable puzzle


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              SEXUAL/ROMANTIC ORIENTATION »» TBD
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              FAMILY
              xxx»» Parents Cato Aurelius and Audenzia de Luca
              xxx»» Brother Aurais, sister Serafina
              FRIENDS
              xxx»» Aurais
              xxx»» Serafina
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